It took me quite awhile to get around to hooking up the Scandyna Micropod speakers, as they are a bit of a pain in the ass to put together. The docking device comes with several different iPod connectors, each of them numbered 1 through 7. Unfortunately, the manual informs me that the proper connecter for a Nano is number 8.
Um, okay… Speaker wires are not included, and even if they were, the method of connecting them is bizarre, at best. Maybe they have different cables in Sweden or wherever the hell these are from, but it’s just not what I’m used to.
Once I got them hooked up, I had to admit that these speakers are some great looking units. The dock is small and unassuming, but the speakers themselves are very stylish, and fit in nicely with my aggressively modern Ikea home furnishings. Why every electronics company doesn’t make some effort to put a little more thought into visual design like this, I cannot even begin to imagine
The first song I tested on the Scandyna Micropod speakers was “I Can’t Go For That” by the magnificent Hall & Oates. The clarity was so great that I could almost feel John Oates’ mustache bristling gently against my ears as I shut my eyes in sonic ecstasy. Each and every note on the keytar was like a magical arrow of purity shot directly into my third eye. My obvious next move was to turn that shit up, but alas, the volume was already at it’s maximum.
Whenever I get emails about USB powered anything, I usually find them highly suspect. There seems to be some kind of renaissance of useless USB powered gadgets being showered upon us by an army of computer savvy Ron Popeils.
When I heard about the USB powered Beverage Chiller by Coolit Systems, I decided to put it to the test. Does it actually do what it purports itself to do, or is it just another crappy gizmo destined for the bargain bin at the Best Buy checkout line? Watch the following time-lapse video to find out:
These products help you drive like you live: dangerous and inconsiderate.
Have you ever been wasted behind the wheel of your car, watching TV on your sun visor while texting nasty messages to the motorists behind you? No? Well why the hell not? Don’t you know about these awesome car gadgets for irresponsible drivers?
First off you’ve got your onboard breathalyzer. Already big in Japan, and desperately needed by our nation’s young celebrities, this device registers your blood alcohol level before letting you drive. If you blow over the limit, your ignition is disabled. Use it to brag to your friends how drunk you were after driving yourself home from a party!
The “drunk” in this picture looks about as sober as a judge. What a rip.
ext you’ve got your driver side sun visor/DVD player. Get pumped up for your commute by watching The Fast and the Furious or Gone in 60 Seconds on a glorious 7” LCD as you careen into the poor saps in front of you. Too bad for them that you spent the money that would’ve gone to insurance on autographed Dukes of Hazard and Knight Rider DVD sets!
You can still sorta see the road. No big deal.
Lastly you’ve got the greatest gadget ever invented for road ragers since the handgun: a programmable LED license plate billboard! Give the guy behind you a friendly “hello”, or perhaps a slightly less friendly “f**k you, buddy”. Let the cute chick behind you know about your “free mustache rides”. Tell that obnoxious family of eight riding your ass that “abortion is still legal, you know”. The possibilities are endless!
A novel approach to communicating with strangers from the safety of your car.
Save the planet whilst charging your iPhone! Hippy.
The more reliant we become on the dozens of portable electronics that we use on a daily basis, the more likely we are to occasionally be caught with our pants down when those devices run out of power and craps out on us at the most inopportune of times. Most of us don’t have car charger for every device that we own, and some of us don’t even have a car at all. So what are we to do when we’re lost somewhere unknown with no battery left in our phones, iPods, GPS navigators and Nintendo DS?
Now you just need a USB powered beer cooler and you’re all set.
Solio has a solution in the form of portable, solar powered power generators that draw power from the sun and pass it on to your mobile devices. There are two different models to choose from, the H1000 Universal Hybrid Charger and the Classic Universal Hybrid Charger. Both chargers work with virtually any device, and extra tips and cables are always being made available on their website.
This device is probably not going to be of any use to you if you live in San Francisco or Seattle, where it is almost never sunny, but the rest of us could really benefit from this eco-friendly device. The Solio chargers are particularly useful for travel, as you won’t really have to worry about power outlet conversion.
Both the H1000 and the Classic Universal Hybrid Charger are available now at solio.com.
Mobile will be adding two new sidekick phones to their stable this holiday season: The Sidekick LX, developed by Sharp, and the Sidekick Slide, developed by Motorola.
Both of these phones greatly improve upon the design of the top selling but sort of janky Sidekick 3. For starters, both phones will be significantly slimmer so that you might actually be able to fit one in your pocket. Additionally, both phones will have slightly larger keys for easier typing, and improvements will have been made to up the quality of the LCD screens and cameras as well.
Now you can see that hankmonster you met last night at the bar in hi-res!
In order to compete with the “Sidekick killer”, Helio’s Ocean, it is rumored that the new Sidekicks will have GPS capabilities and default MySpace browser apps. Also, the picture-sharing program has been modified so that Sidekick users can send photos without attaching them to an email, which has long been one of the most annoying features of the device.
The LX will feature a slightly higher-resolution screen and thinner profile than the Slide, and will retail for around $299 with a two-year contract The Slide will retail for around $199 with a two-year contract. The Sidekick slide will still be available in the coming year as well, at an entry-level price point of $49.
T-Mobile knows what really sells sexy electronic devices: Celebrity tits, big ones, and lots of them.
Are these improvements going to help the Sidekick reclaim its position as the go-to device for the cellphone hipster culture? Or is it already to late? Slide screens are cooler than swivel screens, but even slides are so last year. It’s all about touch screens now! Also, adding features that should have already been included in a device that costs more than 90% of the competition only insults the people that might have considered upgrading. I mean, the Sidekick 3 doesn’t even have an alarm function and has a battery life of about 8 hours for chrissakes! How much better could this year’s models really be?
Be the life of the party, wear the keg on your dome!
Have you ever been to a party, and brought a six-pack, and you don’t want to carry it around all the time like a dork, so you set it down somewhere seemingly inconspicuous, but then you come back to it only to find that some asshole has totally beer-robbed you?
Great for Barbeques, Overeaters Anonymous meetings.
That’s why you and I both need RoFo’s sweet beer keg helmets. Those lame old beer helmets haven’t got anything on this. The keg helmet can hold 5 pints of beer, comes in a variety of embarrassing shapes, and only costs thirty bucks! You can hire a chiropractor with all the money you save, which you’ll probably need after wobbling drunkenly around a party with five glasses of beer on your head.
Some of my personal favorite keg helmet styles include a Harley Davidson motorcycle, a NASCAR speedway, a hot dog, and for you techie nerds out there, a sweet computer beer keg helmet! I don’t know how many appletinis the helmet will hold though, guys, so don’t ask.
You can be just like the Tin Man, only instead of a brain, you’ll be missing a liver!
If that doesn’t suit your fancy, there are keg helmets celebrating some of our favorite sporting pastimes, such as baseball and football, and even some that no one cares about, like soccer and hockey. There’s even a keg helmet to celebrate the world’s most renown alcoholics, the Irish!
Never be caught thirsty at a party again. Let everybody know just how much of a boozehound you are by going to www.rofoheadgear.com and ordering yours today!
Isn’t it lame that you sometimes have to go as long as minutes at a time without watching TV? You’ve got TVs in every room of your home, in your car, on your iPod, even on your wristwatch. What about your new hot tub? How are you supposed to relax in there when you know that you’ll be missing all your favorite shows? You can’t bring your iPod video in there! It’ll get wet!
Catalina Spas feels your pain, and are prepared with a solution to your separation anxiety: The 61-inch HDTV Spa. Relax with the missus while watching Grey’s Anatomy in all its life-size, overrated glory, as 5,000 jets massage you into a perfect state of TV Viewing compliance.
The 61-inch HDTV Spa is also a great place to hang out with your buddies, soaking up the good life in a state-of-the-art, stainless steel cauldron of relaxo. And don’t worry, sitting in a hot tub with a bunch of dudes isn’t gay if you’re watching football on a freakin’ huge TV!
It’s unclear why someone would want a TV this size in their hot tub, as you’d have to be about 100 yards a way to be at a proper viewing distance. I’m not even sure this thing is safe. Hot, splashy water and TV sets are historically incompatible, so far as I know. But if you’re going to be a show off, you’ve got to go all the way with it. Otherwise, everyone will know that you are both a financial failure and a half-ass nouveau-riche poser. And nothing says, “I go all the way” quite like a 61-inch HDTV Spa.
The 61-inch HDTV Spa is cable ready and comes equipped with a DVD and CD player, an AM/FM tuner and 2 pop-up speakers. WHAT? No Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, PS3, Xbox 360, Sirius satellite radio and wireless iPod transmitter? Maybe on next year’s model. For now, you can not only keep up with the Joneses, but also make them seethe with jealousy by purchasing your very own 61-inch HDTV Spa today. Just be sure to try and peel yourself away from the TV long enough to gloat!
Wow. If you needed any more proof that the emo/gothic, skull and crossbones, suicide threat as conversation starter fashion scene has gone a little too far, this is it.
Not content to emblazon every square inch of their clothing with images of skulls and guns, cheerleaders mimicking the style of their less popular peers have turned toward their beauty products and appliances for further poseury.
Enter the Gun Blowdryer, a seemingly normal hairdryer encased in a wild-west revolver casing. Now you can put a gun to your head every morning, and blow frizzy hair straight to hell!
The Gun Blowdryer comes in blue and pink handled models, and changes speed and temperature by cocking the hammer.
This product will make a great companion piece to the half bottle of sleeping pills and dull straight razor that you pretend to attempt suicide with on a weekly basis! The Gun Blowdryer is currently only available in Japan, but don’t worry. There is very little chance that Hot Topic won’t be selling this item to morbid, self-loathing American teenagers in the very near future.
Here’s a product that K-Fed, that douche that used to be married to Halle Berry and the entire NBA could really use: A stainless steel Male Chastity Belt from Latowski!
Looks like a prop from the set of the Iron Man movie.
The Male Chastity Belt will help you keep a tight rein (not too tight!) on your twig and berries, resulting in a significant decrease in divorce and/or illegitimate child support payments. It’s useful, stylish AND emasculating!
Simply stuff your unit into the “organ chamber”, lock it up, hand the key over to your wife and you’re good to go. A handy discharge tube solves your urinary problems, while an enormous gaping hole in the ass lets eliminates the need to unlock the belt, even when it’s time to take the Browns to the Superbowl.
If you share an apartment or home with your girlfriend/boyfriend or have a hot roommate that you’d like to bone, you’ve probably given some thought to bathroom noise. All it takes is one tremendous blast of a fart when the object of your affection happens to be within earshot, and you will forever be known as “the guy/girl that cut that monster ripper that one time”.
Nobody wants to be that person. It’s just not sexy. But you know what is sexy? Expensive, unnecessary gadgets covering every square inch of your home and person!
Also works great for disguising the sounds of stealthy restroom tug-jobs!
Thanks to Altech Flash’s new “iCarta”, you will never have to worry about your cacophonous flatulence again. The iCarta is a combination toilet paper dispenser/iPod dock, with built in speakers. It supports any type of iPod, be it a classic pod, nano or shuffle.
If you’re like most people, the music you listen to sounds like shit anyway, so at first the difference will not be readily apparent. But believe me when I say that you will be thanking Atech Flash when you’re stepping on mud ducks with reckless abandon, only to be drowned out by the sound of whatever Top 40 hit happens to be blaring from your speakers.
The iCarta will retail for about $100. Toilet paper, iPods and your dignity are all sold separately.
